Bottle carrier



Jan. 9, 1968 J. D. IDESMOND ETAL BOTTLE CARRIER 5 Sheets-Shet 1 Filed Nov. 25, 1966 f 7106771 57151 I Joknfl Desmond w 'Ckar-lesflLz'nci Jan. 9, 1968 I J. D. DESMOND ETAL 3,362,613

BOTTLE CARRIER Filed Nov. 25, 1966, 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Jan. 9, 1968 J. 0. DESMOND ETAL ,613

BOTTLE CARRIER 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Nov. 25, 1966 United States Patent 3,362,613 BOTTLE CARRIER John D. Desmond, Philadelphia, Pa, and Charles F. Lind,

Mount Prospect, Ill., assignors to Container Corporation of America, Chicago, 11]., a corporation of Delaware Filed Nov. 25, 1966, Ser. No. 596,897 4 Claims. (Cl. 229-28) This invention relates to a bottle carrier having full depth bottle protecting cells formed by adjacent longitudinal and transverse partitions, and more particularly, to an improved manner of forming the partitions from a nested paperboard blank.

Paperboard bottle carriers generally have surrounding side and end walls, and longitudinal and transverse partitions formed therebetween to define individual bottle carrying cells. Certain of these carriers provide for full depth cell? by extending the partitions the full height of the side wal s.

A basic problem of this type carrier construction is the excess area of paperboard used because of improper nesting of the various partitions components in the blank.

This invention provides a bottle carrier having side and end walls and having full height longitudinal and transverse partitions hinged to these walls and dividing the carrier into a plurality of cells. The particular improvement of this carrier is the nesting of the various components, particularly the longitudinal and transverse partitions, utilizing the area normally wasted in the blank to achieve an economical blank.

Accordingly, an object of this invention is to provide an improved bottle carrier having full depth bottle cells defined by cooperating longitudinal and transverse partitions, the transverse partition element being formed from the blank in the area between the end wall and longitudinal partition elements.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved full depth bottle carrier blank of a generally H shaped'contour including a central bottom wall, side walls hinged to opposite side edges of the bottom wall, pairs of end walls hinged to the adjacent edges of the side walls, longitudinal partition elements hinged to one pair of the end walls, and a plurality of transverse partition elements hinged to the longitudinal partition elements and including a pair of lap panels adapted to be secured flush against the longitudinal partition element and opposing side wall of the carrier and an interconnecting partition panel.

These and other objects will be more fully understood after reviewing the following specification including the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a bottle carrier formed according to the subject invention;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the subject bottle carrier;

FIGS. 3 and 4 are side elevational views, partially in section as seen from lines 33 and 44 of FIG. 2 of the subject carrier;

FIG. 5 is a top plan vie-w of the blank suitably cut and scored to define the bottle carrier illustrated in FIGS. 1-4;

FIGS. 6 and 7 are top plan views of the bottle carrier blank of FIG. 5 shown in various stages of tabricatiom.

FIG. 8 is a top plan view of the subject bottle carrier shown in the collapsed condition thereof.

The subject bottle carrier 10 includes a bottom wall 12, and opposed side walls 14 and 15 and opposed end walls 16 and 17 upstanding therefrom and defining an open top body. The body is in turn divided by a longitudinal partition handle element 18 and by transverse partitions 19, 241, 21 and 22 into six cells 23, each of which extend the full height of the body walls.

The bottom wall'12 has a center fold 24, and the side and end walls and longitudinal and transverse partition element are each hingedly connected to one another to accommodate collapse of the carrier, the bottom wall folding outwardly as shown in FIG. 8. A tab 25 formed as part of the longitudinal partition element 18 cooperates with the bottom wall to maintain the carrier in the erected open condition.

Referring now specifically to FIG. 5, the blank 26 is generally H shaped, and the bottom wall panels 12 are hinged to the side wall panels 14 and 15 along longitudinal fold lines 27 each parallel to the bottom wall fold 24. End wall panels 16 and 17 and the longitudinal partition panels 28, 34 and 36 are in turn hinged to one another along parallel transverse folds 29, 31, 33, 35 and 37, each of which is perpendicular to the previously mentioned folds 24 and 27. The longitudinal partition panels 34 and 36 are separated from one another at their bottom edges by the full width of the bottom wall panel 12. It is from this area of the blank, between the longitudinal partition panels 34 and 36, the bottom wall panel 12, and the corresponding end wall panels 17 that the transverse partition elements are formed.

The transverse partition elements 19 and 21 for one row of cells are hinged to the transverse partition panel 34 along longitudinal fold lines 43 and 49. Each partition element includes an inner glue panel hinged to the longitudinal partition panel, a transverse panel hinged to the inner glue panel, and an outer glue panel hinged to the transverse partition panel. Specifically, the partition element 19 includes inner glue panel 44, transverse panel 46 and outer glue panel 48 hinged along fold lines 43, 45 and 47; while partition element 21 includes inner glue panel 50, transverse panel 52 and outer glue panel 54 hinged along fold lines 49, 51 and 53. The inner glue panels 44 and 59 are folded about the respective fold lines 43 and 49 against the longitudinal partition panel 34, and the outer glue panels 48 and 54 are adapted to be secured flush against side wall 14 in a manner to be described hereinafter.

The transverse partition element 22 for the other row of cells is integrally hinged to the other of the longitudinal partition panels and is formed from the area of the blank between these panels. Thus, the transverse partition element includes an inner glue panel 60 hinged along a 45 diagonal fold line 61 to the longitudinal partition panel 36, a transverse partition panel 62 hinged thereto along longitudinal fold line 63, and an outer glue panel 64 hinged to the partition panel along longitudinal told line 65. The entire transverse partition element is designed to be folded about line 61 to present the inner glue panel 60 in flush relationship against the longitudinal partition panel 36. The outer glue panel 6 1 is adapted to cooperate with the opposing side wall 15 in the manner to be outlined.

A fourth transverse partition element 20 is formed from the longitudinal partition panel 36 itself, and includes a transverse panel 68 hinged thereto on fold line 69 and outer glue flap 70 hinged to the'transverse panel along fold line 71.

In the arrangement of the respective partition elements, the inner glue panel 44- is separated from the transverse panel 68 by out line 72. The transverse panel 46 is separated from the longitudinal panel 34 and the inner glue panel 45 by cut lines 73 and 74, and from the outer glue panel 54 by cut line 75. The inner glue panel 60 is separated from the bottom wall panel 12, the end wall and longitudinal partition panel 36 by cut line 76, and the transverse panel 62 is separated from the bottom wall panel by out line 77. The transverse panel 52 is separated from the longitudinal partition panel 34 and inner glue panels 44 by out line 78 (being continued across cut line 75), and the inner glue panel 51) is separated from transverse panel 62 and outer glue panel 64 by out line 79. Thus, each of these transverse partition elements is connected to its longitudinal partition panel at only one hinged location, 43, 49 or 61.

A handle element is formed integrally with the longi tudinal partition panel 34 adjacent the top section thereof and nest along the upper edges along the corresponding side and end walls. The handle element includes an outer handle panel 80 hinged along transverse fold line 81 to the longitudinal partition panel 34, an inner handle panel 82 hinged along transverse fold line 83 to the panel 80, and a top handle panel 84 hinged along longitudinal fold line 85 to the panel 80. The panels 80 and 32 are separated from the adjacent side and end wall panels by a cut line 87. The handle panels have finger openings 88 and 8? therein that align with one another and with a similar opening 90 in the longitudinal partition panel 34 when the panels are folded to overlap one another.

To erect the carrier, adhesive is applied to the inner glue panels 69, 44 and 5e, and these panels and the connected transverse and outer glue panels are folded in this order about the fold line 61, 43 and 49, respectively. This secures the inner glue panels to the longitudinal partition panels 34 or 36. Adhesive is then applied to the inner handle panel 82 and the inner handle panel is folded about the fold line 83 to secure the inner and outer handle panels together. Thereafter, adhesive is applied to the outer glue panels 48, 54, 64 and 70 (as seen in FIG. 6) and the longitudinal partition panels are then folded about fold lines 35 and 37 to secure the mentioned glue panels to the underlying side walls 14 and 15. Adhesive is thereafter applied to the marginal edge of the longitudinal partition panel 34 (as seen in FIG. 7) and the end walls 16 are folded onto the side wall panels 14 and 15. Adhesive is then applied to the top handle panel 84, the marginal edges of longitudinal partition panels 28 and 34, and the two halves of the carrier are folded about the bottom wall center fold 24, and the top handle panel folded about fold line 85 to finish the fabrication of the carrier.

What is claimed is:

1. A blank for a bottle carrier having a bottom wall, opposed side and end walls upstanding from the bottom wall, and longitudinal and transverse partition elements hinged to the side and end walls to form bottle receiving cells, the combination comprising:

(a) a bottom wall panel, side wall panels hinged along longitudinal fold lines to the bottom wall panel, pairs of end wall panels hinged along transverse fold lines to the side wall panels, and pairs of longitudinal partition panels hinged along transverse fold lines to the end wall panels;

(b) a plurality of transverse partition elements formed between the bottom wall, one pair of longitudinal partition panels, and the corresponding one pair of end wall panels, and each such transverse partition element including a transverse panel and longitudinal inner and outer panels hinged to the transverse panel;

(0) the longitudinal inner panels including:

(1) a first inner panel hinged along a diagonal fold line to one longitudinal partition panel; (2) a second inner panel hinged along a longitudinal fold line to the other longitudinal partition panel.

2. A blank for a bottle carrier having a bottom Wall, opposed side and end walls upstanding from the bottorri wall, and longitudinal and transverse partition elements hinged to the side and end walls to form bottle receiving cells, the combination comprising:

(a) a bottom wall panel, side wall panels hinged along longitudinal fold lines to the bottom wall panel, pairs of end wall panels hinged along transverse fold lines to the side wall panels, and pairs of longitudinal partition panels hinged along transverse fold lines to the end wall panels;

(b) a plurality of transverse partition elements formed between the bottom wall, one pair of longitudinal partition panels, and the corresponding one pair of end wall panels, and each such transverse partition element including a transverse panel and longitudinal inner and outer panels hinged to the transverse panel;

(0) the longitudinal inner panels including:

( 1) a first inner panel hinged along a diagonal fold line to one longitudinal partition panel; (2) second and third inner panels hinged along longitudinal fold lines to the other longitudinal partition panel;

(d) an additional transverse partition element including a transverse partition panel hinged to the one longitudinal panel along a transverse fold line and an outer panel hinged along a transverse fold line to the partition panel.

3. A bottle carrier comprising:

(a) a bottom wall and opposed side and end walls upstanding from the bottom Wall;

(b) a longitudinal partition element hinged to the end walls and first and second transverse partition elements hinged to the side walls and longitudinal partition elements and forming thereby bottle receiving cells;

(0) each such transverse partition element including a transverse panel and longitudinal inner and outer panels hinged on parallel fold lines to the transverse panel and disposed in secured relation flush against the longitudinal partition element and side walls, respectively;

(d) said first inner panel being hinged along a diagonal fold line to said longitudinal partition element;

(e) said second inner panel being hinged along a horizontal fold line to said longitudinal partition element.

4. A bottle carrier having:

(a) a bottom Wall, opposed side and end walls upstanding from the bottom wall, and longitudinal and transverse partition elements hinged to the side and end walls to form bottle receiving cells;

(b) three of such transverse partition elements each including a transverse panel and longitudinal inner and outer panels hinged on parallel fold lines to the transverse panel;

(c) said longitudinal inner panel including:

(1) a first inner panel hinged along a diagonal fold line to the longitudinal partition element;

(2) second and third inner panels hinged along horizontal fold lines to the longitudinal partition element;

(d) an additional transverse partition element including a transverse partition panel hinged to the longitudinal partition element along a vertical fold line and an outer panel hinged'along a parallel transverse fold line to the partition panel.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS DONALD F. NORTON, Primary Examiner. 

1. A BLANK FOR A BOTTLE CARRIER HAVING A BOTTOM WALL, OPPOSED SIDE AND END WALLS UPSTANDING FROM THE BOTTOM WALL, AND LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE PARTITION ELEMENTS HINGED TO THE SIDE AND END WALLS TO FORM BOTTLE RECEIVING CELLS, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: (A) A BOTTOM WALL PANEL, SIDE WALL PANELS HINGED ALONG LONGITUDINAL FOLD LINES TO THE BOTTOM WALL PANEL, PAIRS OF END WALL PANELS HINGED ALONG TRANSVERSE FOLD LINES TO THE SIDE WALL PANELS, AND PAIRS OF LONGITUDINALL PARTITION PANELS HINGED ALONG TRANSVERSE FOLD LINES TO THE END WALL PANELS; (B) A PLURALITY OF TRANSVERSE PARTITION ELEMENTS FORMED BETWEEN THE BOTTOM WALL, ONE PAIR OF LONGITUDINAL PARTITION PANELS, AND THE CORRESPONDING ONE PAIR OF END WALL PANELS, AND EACH SUCH TRANSVERSE PARTITION ELEMENT INCLUDING A TRANSVERSE PANEL AND LONGITUDINAL INNER AND OUTER PANELS HINGED TO THE TRANSVERSE PANEL; (C) THE LONGITUDINAL INNER PANELS INCLUDING: (1) A FIRST INNER PANEL HINGED ALONG A DIAGONAL FOLD LINE TO ONE LONGITUDINAL PARTITION PANEL; (2) A SECOD INNER PANEL HINGED ALONG A LONGITUDINAL FOLD LINE TO THE OTHER LONGITUDINAL PARTION PANEL. 